Sunfall
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Sunfall a 2-channel video
Sunfall is last in a series of poetic videos that trace the nuclear industrial complex in the United States, from the production to the first bombings to the waste. Each video is shot at various locations that have been touched by nuclear development, many of them are deemed National Sacrifice Zones. In these works, solitary figures traverse the landscape. They are considered figures from the future and past in communication with the element plutonium. Sunfall is shot in New Mexico on location at Trinity Test Site and the surrounding area, Los Alamos, and the edges of the Waste Isolation Plant in Carlsbad. Historical found footage of Trinity Test Site and Los Alamos is incorporated into this dreamlike rendering of land touched by man made plutonium.
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PRESENT CO, Brooklyn NY_Jessie Rose Vala employs totemic sculptural objects and ritualized performances of, on and about the sacrosanct soils of the western landscape. Vala’s nonlinear narratives depict the ceremonial redemption of sacred places spoiled by human intervention and historical residue. By constructing personally derived rituals, the artist questions if the tumult of technology will someday project a vision of natural order back onto the dust.
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